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Virtual reality and presence

Virtual reality can trick your body into feeling genuinely present in a space, yet something essential—the stakes, the irreversibility, the weight of actual consequence—remains absent. It's less about whether the experience is real and more about whether your nervous system can settle into it as real, and what that costs when the headset comes off.

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